Re: Workgroup Setup

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Hey Steve thanks again for replying, the firewall will not help you if a PC
gets infected do you not agree? If a PC gets infected by a virus the only
thing that will stop the infection is an anti-virus pgm.

So to answer my question if I have a firewall on 1 PC and the others access
the internet from this PC they will be covered by the same firewall correct?

1 more question if I may the PC that will be connected to the internet also
is a remote station I have a person that connects via the internet and does
some work.
This is currently in place but all 3 stations connect to the internet
through a single route. I am trying to make it more secure with less software
to be installed on each PC, I do not like the Windows firewall so I do not
use it, I use a third parties.

Thanks again for any info.

Steve

"Steve Winograd" wrote:

You're welcome. I didn't say that outside activity will bypass the PC
that's hooked up to the Internet. I said to enable a firewall on the
intranetwork computers to protect them from LAN-based threats (ones
that come from other computers in your own network). For example, a
user on one computer could open an infected attachment and become
infected with a worm. That worm could try to send itself to the other
computers over the LAN.

I see no disadvantage to running a firewall on every computer. Do you?
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